The parody of Qiong Yao──A case study of Hsu Du Ba""""

Observing news reports and internet users around me, I found that Qiong Yao’s romantic narrative has been transformed by parodies. I am therefore interested in understanding the trilateral relationship among Qiong Yao’s original texts, derivative works and internet users. This study not only deconstructs the symbols, codes and ideologies embedded in Qiong Yao’s original texts but also demonstrates the modern society’s aesthetic of “Qiong Yao’s love” by examining Xu Du Ba. To Xu Du Ba users, parody is adopted as a strategy to fight against mainstream ideologies. It is contested that parody as a strategy can be further categorized as: “subverting good and bad”, “deconstructing orthodoxy”, “differentiating selves”, and “carnival take-over”.